Far over mystic mountains crag
Our comrades hither bit the bag
With their back molars
But still our bowlers
Are held by yonder scallywag

This appeared in a comic strip in a monthly publication in the mid-80s.

Boraxxe, you are an old-timer like me, do you recognize it?

Aug 18 2014, 10:41 AM

Wilros

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nomanar

No clue about where you got the first two lines.

To continue a theme:

Far over the Misty Mountains tall,
In a king's subterranean hall,
I relieved a hobbit of his stress,
And of the dwarves there I made less.

Sure sounds like Erebor, so maybe Smaug? He certainly made less of the dwarves when he moved in.

Aug 19 2014, 08:26 PM

Nomanar

I can see where you got Smaug (except for the hobbit stress part), but it is not correct. Think of the hobbit and dwarf events happening at the same time.

Aug 20 2014, 01:00 AM

c_the_awesome

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nomanar

I can see where you got Smaug (except for the hobbit stress part), but it is not correct. Think of the hobbit and dwarf events happening at the same time.

The Arkenstone?

Aug 20 2014, 11:14 AM

Nomanar

Quote:

Originally Posted by c_the_awesome

The Arkenstone?

Nope, but I can (mostly) see where you got it. Except for the dwarf part, since I didn't think there were less dwarves because of the Arkenstone directly...

Aug 20 2014, 01:21 PM

Vilnas

I am wondering if you were playing tricksy with us. How about the incident in Thranduil's halls where Bilbo stuffs the dwarves in barrels and drops them into the river through the trap door. Admittedly I cannot think of the one specific thing from the event that answers the riddle - maybe the trap door?. I'm just looking outside the box, as it were.

Aug 20 2014, 02:31 PM

Nomanar

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vilnas

I am wondering if you were playing tricksy with us. How about the incident in Thranduil's halls where Bilbo stuffs the dwarves in barrels and drops them into the river through the trap door. Admittedly I cannot think of the one specific thing from the event that answers the riddle - maybe the trap door?. I'm just looking outside the box, as it were.

Now your onto it. I accept anything pertaining to the event. The riddle stick is yours.

Aug 21 2014, 12:10 PM

Vilnas

In land of mystic mountains grey
A time of folk since gone away
Fearsome foe noble hero slew
His wealth and glory greatly grew
Demand for precious treasure spurn'd
Name sire of slayer slain in turn

Aug 21 2014, 12:12 PM

Vilnas

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urias

The full poem that I cribbed from went like this (as I recall):

Far over mystic mountains crag
Our comrades hither bit the bag
With their back molars
But still our bowlers
Are held by yonder scallywag

This appeared in a comic strip in a monthly publication in the mid-80s.

Boraxxe, you are an old-timer like me, do you recognize it?

Well, for all you young whippersnappers, this little ditty appeared in the Wormy comic strip that was at one time published in Dragon magazine when that periodical had not yet reached issue 100.

Aug 21 2014, 03:03 PM

Wilros

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vilnas

In land of mystic mountains grey
A time of folk since gone away
Fearsome foe noble hero slew
His wealth and glory greatly grew
Demand for precious treasure spurn'd
Name sire of slayer slain in turn

Sounds like Fram's slaying of the dragon Scatha, and then Fram's death supposedly at the hands of the dwarves. So, the 'sire of slayer slain in turn' would be Fram's father, who was Frumgar.

Aug 21 2014, 04:23 PM

Vilnas

That didn't take long. Nicely done.

Aug 21 2014, 07:01 PM

Wilros

Lots of talk about mountains in here lately, so let's try to discuss a different type of landscape:

Here there were towers not two, but three
And from them one could see the sea.
One was used to gaze towards a people long asunder
And in a later age a town was built there under.

Aug 21 2014, 10:26 PM

c_the_awesome

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wilros

Lots of talk about mountains in here lately, so let's try to discuss a different type of landscape:

Here there were towers not two, but three
And from them one could see the sea.
One was used to gaze towards a people long asunder
And in a later age a town was built there under.

The Tower hills, also known as the Emyn Beraid

Aug 22 2014, 10:14 AM

Wilros

Quote:

Originally Posted by c_the_awesome

The Tower hills, also known as the Emyn Beraid

Correctumundo!

Sep 11 2014, 01:30 AM

c_the_awesome

Sorry for the wait everyone, I've been realy busy the past couple weeks, and haven't had time to do mutch on the internet at all.

For ancient king and elvish lord
there was a gleaming golden hoard
but taken by one and returned by another
and given to the father of famous lover

Sep 13 2014, 10:05 AM

Nomanar

The Nauglamir.

Sep 15 2014, 09:56 PM

c_the_awesome

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nomanar

The Nauglamir.

Correct, strike us with a good one.

Sep 16 2014, 04:19 PM

Nomanar

I'll try my best...

Of the east I came with my sons and my kin,
When the day was done,
And the battle was won,
Treachery proved to be my primary sin.

Sep 16 2014, 10:22 PM

c_the_awesome

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nomanar

I'll try my best...

Of the east I came with my sons and my kin,
When the day was done,
And the battle was won,
Treachery proved to be my primary sin.

Ulfang the Black

Sep 17 2014, 09:46 PM

Nomanar

Quote:

Originally Posted by c_the_awesome

Ulfang the Black

That'd be the very same. You're up.

Sep 21 2014, 09:51 PM

c_the_awesome

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nomanar

That'd be the very same. You're up.

ok thanks

In shallow soil
the spoil of our toil
later some off the mortal coil
but one foe we did foil

Oct 24 2014, 12:03 AM

c_the_awesome

Quote:

Originally Posted by c_the_awesome

ok thanks

In shallow soil
the spoil of our toil
later some off the mortal coil
but one foe we did foil

I think I might need to give a clue.
These events take place before the Lord of the Rings

Oct 24 2014, 06:26 AM

Ningoril

A stab in the dark at the Nauglamir?

Although if I may have a second guess the one ring itself,
found by deagal,
the spoil of our toil I can fit in my mad logic being thought lost and the cause of the war...
it bleeds your life making you not quite mortal but gifted longer life until you fade...
and one foe foiled then goes onto lotr and it foiled saruman, sauron and to a degree merry and pippin foiled the orcs and uruks pretending to have it etc etc.

so if aloud the second guess there is my logic behind the one ring and its rediscovery?

Oct 26 2014, 12:35 AM

c_the_awesome

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ningoril

A stab in the dark at the Nauglamir?

Although if I may have a second guess the one ring itself,
found by deagal,
the spoil of our toil I can fit in my mad logic being thought lost and the cause of the war...
it bleeds your life making you not quite mortal but gifted longer life until you fade...
and one foe foiled then goes onto lotr and it foiled saruman, sauron and to a degree merry and pippin foiled the orcs and uruks pretending to have it etc etc.

so if aloud the second guess there is my logic behind the one ring and its rediscovery?

sorry that is not correct.

Oct 27 2014, 11:44 AM

Ningoril

Quote:

Originally Posted by c_the_awesome

sorry that is not correct.

Sorry know it was a long shot and was a pretty bad guess (it is my first guess at one of these riddles or trivia games)